{"id":21056,"date":"2013-06-04T06:48:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T05:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=21056"},"modified":"2013-06-04T06:48:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T05:48:10","slug":"were-already-burning-our-way-to-oblivion-how-does-fracking-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/06\/04\/were-already-burning-our-way-to-oblivion-how-does-fracking-help\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re already burning our way to oblivion. How does fracking help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/39f09fc4-cc66-11e2-9cf7-00144feab7de.html#ixzz2VDvLTgnD\" target=\"_blank\">FT notes this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The wedge of land squeezed between the M56 and M62 in north-west England could be Britain\u2019s new oil and gas Eldorado.<\/p>\n<p>So says<a href=\"http:\/\/markets.ft.com\/tearsheets\/performance.asp?s=uk:IGAS\" data-hover-chart=\"uk:IGAS\">\u00a0IGas<\/a>, one of the UK\u2019s leading shale explorers, which has vastly increased its estimate of the amount of gas it could be sitting on in the area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now I'm not an expert on fracking, and will never claim to be.<\/p>\n<p>But I do know that we're already burning our way to oblivion. And this seems, to me, to simply assist that process.<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone tell me how that's good news for future\u00a0generations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the FT notes this morning: The wedge of land squeezed between the M56 and M62 in north-west England could be Britain\u2019s new oil and<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/06\/04\/were-already-burning-our-way-to-oblivion-how-does-fracking-help\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}